Letter From ChinaThe Search for Peking ManThe famous fossils are still MIA, but does Chinese paleontology miss them?
by Jake Hooker

On the Cover:This head from a statue of the Empress Livia, wife of Augustus (r. 27 B.C.-A.D. 14), was part of an imperial portrait group excavated at Butrint, Albania, in 1928. It was stolen in 1992 but recovered a year later. It now forms the centerpiece of the new Butrint museum, opened in 2005. (Photograph courtesy Butrint Foundation)